Sounds to me like making a simple login form is going to be the simplest and least time consuming. You don't even have to make a signup. If you really want to go with this route, you can probably get away with a self-signed certificate kept on your machine and the server and not distributed (basical...

Some years back when I was still working at a grocery store, I got off close to midnight after working an early shift. I was exhausted and for some reason chugged three cans of coke. I hadn't really eaten all day. I went to bed, which the head of the bed was against one wall and the foot was towards...

Microsoft develops great products, and they have a ton of resources. Silverlight is a good product, but it's not popular enough and the open source community will never support it. Flash did a lot for the internet, the most important of which is that it got us away from having to install codec packs...

At 25 bucks a fifth, I'd gladly pony up the 5 more for E.T.Lee, which you are completely correct in recommending I guess that's where the difference is in terms of price to quality. Over here, JBB is $18 per 750, Elmer T Lee is $30. As for Evan Williams, personally I'm not a fan of the standard bot...

Made a sort-of-margarita, but with coriander (leaves, aka cilantro) steeped in the tequila, and a dash of fish sauce to create a kinda Thai theme. Didn't expect to be able to taste the coriander - was just an experiment - but the drink was very pleasant. The coriander and fish sauce gave it another...

While I sit here typing high level commands, my code is running off and killing kittens and scaring young children! Funny thing, there was a debate I had with one of the .NET developers at my work. There was an array of Int64's that had to go into the database, since there was no reason to query th...

Not sure this counts as science, or just plain ol playing with fire, but filling a 2 liter bottle with mist/aerosol from a can of WD-40 and igniting it with a barbecue lighter makes a nice little effect. Bottle could potentially catch fire, but I never had a problem.

If you like rye, I find Wild Turkey Rye to be the best in that respect. Ha ha, no. Rittenhouse. Routinely wins as best whiskey period, and runs between $17 and $22 per 750. Admittedly, finding it can be a problem. I agree that Rittenhouse is good, but I personally prefer Wild Turkey. I get Wild Tur...

They are both similar: they both have inedible seeds, they both have skins, grow on trees, can be used to make juice, they can be either sweet or sour, both contain vitamin C, and there are many different varieties of either fruit. None is really better than the other, so I go for whatever seems fre...

I like C: I've been using it since 1980, but I wouldn't recommend it as a first language because it is too low level. Serious use of C involves pointers, and IMHO forcing complete newbies to learn about pointers is not wise. My first language was javascript with webpages, and I went directly to C. ...

Is it still possible in Visual Studio to use real C++? There are four options for C++ projects in Visual Studio: CLR - .NET ATL - Basically for developing COM objects MFC - A class library that is easier to work with and provides extra functionality over the standard Win32 libraries Win32 - Regular...

I think C# is the only one in this list that makes use of the .NET framework. Note that I'm not saying that Microsoft aims C# as the default language for everything , only for .NET. You can develop for Windows without .NET, too. "Visual Basic" is not VB.NET. As stated, Visual Basic in new...

I seem to recall that VB is the default language to be embedded in ASP constructions, which I assume you were working with in Visual Webdev? I think that apart from ASP (if that's .NET at all, but I guess it probably is), C# is the intended default language for .NET. It was Visual Webdev, but I jus...

We're talking a language where this was the only method of error detection available. Basically, try/catch except you caught everything , with no non-hackish way to catch some errors and delegate others. Implemented with gotos. And with the horror that is "On Error Resume Next" even exist...

One factor that could make a difference between the popularity of VB.NET and C# is that C# is aimed by Microsoft to be the default language for .NET, and therefore they put more effort in promoting it. Hmm... When I was playing with Visual Web Developer, the default was VB. I have a copy of visual ...

I've gotta admit, the distinction between slashes and backslashes has always seemed completely backwards to me. Naturally, when writing a slash, you start at the top and go down. So... a regular slash starts at the top and goes backwards from there, while a backslash starts at the top and goes forw...

This brings up an interesting question: What was there before the prius was created? I tried doing the calculation in SQL Server, but it just returns NULL. Did the world not exist before the prius? Is our history real, or just an illusion? Was the prius created by man, Azathoth, itself, or did it ju...